This was one of the first essays I wrote as a mother. It was picked to be part of an online collection of essays three years ago, but I thought of it today as I was looking at schools for my 2nd little guy.
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Just give me a minute. Mommy needs a minute. I need to finish making [...]
(Again, this is a story that I never found a published ”home” for so I thought I would share it here. It is hard to abandon any of my babies without a decent farewell.)
“What do you do for a living?”
I was attending a social function with my husband for one of the classes he was taking for [...]
There is a red shovel in almost every picture of my oldest son when he was a toddler. He found two shovels in one summer at the beach. The original was lost within a few days but the survivor, a scoop that was probably once used in a boardwalk candy shop, stayed with us for almost two [...]
